About US

Humble Bee Vineyards is a Gold Medal winning small batch winery located in Northeastern Ohio with the main focus of producing Honey Wines. Our mission is to produce a wide variety of Honey Wine using exceptional ingredients to create different flavors of Honey Wines for our customers to experience. Thanks to the abundant farming industry within the state of Ohio, Humble Bee Vineyards currently purchases 90% of our fruit and 100% of our honey from local suppliers.

Our Goal is to provide our customers with premium flagship brand of Honey Wine while also providing seasonal flavored wines.

What Is Honey Wine?

Honey Wines, also known as mead, dates back to at least 7000 BC. Honey Wine is a mixture of honey, water, yeast and other added ingredients depending on traditions. Honey comes in different varieties depending on the flowers the bees visit...each with a unique flavor and sweetness. Many different factors affect the taste on Honey wine. These factors include the type of honey, additives (fruit, hops, spices and even grapes), yeast and the aging procedure. This terminology is similar to describing red and white wine.

Simply put—Mead is wine made from Honey.

Fun Facts About Bees

Worker honey bees are all females. Males do not know how to even feed themselves and their only reason for being in the hive is for reproducing with the queen. The males do not have a stinger and they are kicked out of the hive in the fall, because there are no uses for them.

Bees are responsible for 80% of pollination that occurs. So next time you're eating any fruit or vegetable, thank a honey bee!

Honey Wine is the planet's oldest fermented beverage. Its history dates back over eight thousand years.

Honey Wine is truly a global drink. It independently originated in very diverse cultures including Egyptian, Celtic, Indian and Scandinavian.

In Medieval times, it was customary for a newly married couple to be given enough mead to drink a glass every night for the first month (or moon cycle) of their marriage. If the wife became pregnant and bore a son, the mead maker was congratulated and held in great esteem for his potent nectar. This is the origin of the term honey-moon.

Does wine cause worse headaches than other types of liquor?Not really. You might have heard people complaining that wine contains something that causes headaches, even if you just have 1 or 2 glasses. People are usually talking about sulfites, which are used in wine (and more so in white wine than red wine). However, the amount of sulfites used in wine is too low to have any meaningful effect.

A very special wine is mead or honey wine, which is also called “Drink of the Gods”.